Hanoi, Sept. 22 -- Super Typhoon Ragasa continues to intensify as it approaches the East Sea, bringing powerful winds, towering waves, and warnings of flash floods and landslides in northern mountainous provinces of Vietnam. At 7 am on September 22, the storm's eye was located at 19.3 degrees North latitude and 123.1 degrees East longitude, about 160 km northeast of Luzon Island in the Philippines. Ragasa packed maximum winds of 202-221 km per hour (equivalent to Level 17 on Vietnam's wind scale), with gusts exceeding Level 17, and was moving west-northwest at around 20 km per hour, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. By 7 am on September 23, Ragasa is forecast to be in the northeastern region of the nor...